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A Transit Ad That Puts Car Commercials to Shame
This new ad from Västtrafik, Sweden's second-largest public transportation company, has all the well-worn cliches of a good car commercial: the baritone narrator, the stunning landscapes, the empty roads. What's different about this ad is that what it's selling will help preserve that natural scenery, rather than pave and pollute it.
October 8, 2013
Cycling So Popular in Georgia That Lawmaker Carl Rogers Wants to Ban It
Responding to a cycling boom in northern Georgia, a bill introduced in the state house would require bicyclists to purchase license plates and limit how and where they ride.
October 7, 2013
Curb Appeal
Alan Durning is the executive director of Sightline. This post is #15 in the Sightline series, Parking? Lots!
October 4, 2013
NAACP: A Walkable Built Environment Is a “Premier Civil Rights Issue”
The shooting at the Capitol yesterday, which took place as Walking Summit advocates were there lobbying lawmakers, underscores a very important point: Street safety isn’t just about sidewalks and traffic. It’s also about crime.
October 4, 2013
The Beginning of the End for Level of Service?
There are three little words that will make any livable streets advocate groan: Level of Service.
October 3, 2013
SSTI to Transport Officials: Start Planning for a Future With Less Driving
For a long time in the United States, driving activity moved in step with the economy. Since economic growth was fairly steady, consistent growth in driving was built into all the traffic modeling the engineers used to plan and build streets and transportation infrastructure.
October 2, 2013
Cast Your Vote for the Best Picture of Car-Free Kiddies in Cities
Are cities good places for children?
October 2, 2013
The Convergence Between New Technologies and the Decline in Driving
According to a spate of recent studies, Millennials -- a bigger generation than the Baby Boomers -- are driving less than their parents did. But the underlying reasons are a matter of some dispute. Will younger Americans start happily motoring again once the economy is really humming, or is a lasting generational shift underway?
October 1, 2013
Shutdown: Congress Prepares to Furlough One-Third of U.S. DOT Staff
Looks like we’re heading for a real, honest-to-goodness government shutdown tomorrow due to a childish Congressional food fight over budgets and health care. Already this year, thousands of government employees faced furloughs due to sequestration, and now they're looking at an indefinite unpaid leave. It'll last until Congress can play nice and make a deal on the budget and health care, and who knows when that will be.
September 30, 2013
Will “Parking Madness” Champion Tulsa Punt on Reforms?
Tulsa, Oklahoma, is Streetsblog's reigning "Parking Madness" champion -- earlier this year readers said its downtown was scarred by the worst parking crater in America. It seemed at the time like Tulsa was going to take action to mend its downtown, but recent news has not been so encouraging. Will Tulsa enact a new surface parking moratorium or continue bulldozing the city to make way for surface parking? It could all rest with an upcoming City Council decision.
September 30, 2013